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Science teachers at Loxahatchee middle school strike back against hands-on labs
palmbeachpost.com - By Allison RossPalm Beach Post Staff WriterPosted: 4:28 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011Greg Loumanis says he's "insulted" by some of the hands-on learning activities that are suggested to science teache...
Pension Call Tuesday. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - The veto session begins in one week. Every reader of this blog now must contact their own General Assembly representative every day. By personal contact. By phone. By fax or personal email. Or by u...
The “Continuous Narrowing” of ESEA « Common Core
blog.commoncore.org - In September 2009, when reauthorization of ESEA seemed imminent, Secretary Duncan said, “Let us build a law that discourages a narrowing of curriculum and promotes a well-rounded education that dra...
Online Educators Gaining Both Classes and Critics
nytimes.com - HOUSTON — The school day was difficult, said Will Clarkston, a soft-spoken 20-year-old who, in his own words, can’t sit still. His dyslexia sometimes leaves him grasping to text the rig...
How are dues are being used. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - School Tech Connect’s Tim Furman links to my post that has the two Eeyore’s, IEA Prez Cinda Klickna and Government Relations chief Jim Reed, putting the members to sleep. The video was intended to ...
George W. Bush will confab Thursday in Denver with Get Smart Schools
denverpost.com - Former President George W. Bush, who canceled a round-table meeting with Get Smart Schools in February, will make up for the missed appearance Thursday. Bush will give brief remarks and then meet w...
SignOn.org Beta
signon.org - Flag petition as inappropriateBy Susan DuFresne (Contact)To be delivered to: The United States SenateDear Senators: The recent passage of H.R. 2218, the Empowering Parents Through the Quality Chart...
New Legislation Would Shut Down U.S. Education System, Give Each American Student $3,000 To Start Own Small Business
theonion.com - WASHINGTON—In what is being hailed as a simple and elegant solution to the nation's current employment and education crises, a bill introduced in Congress Monday would shutter U.S. schools and give...
Starving America’s Public Schools | OurFuture.org
ourfuture.org - Wall Street’s excesses blew up the economy. Now the question is who pays to clean up the mess. And across the country, our children are already paying part of the bill – as their schools are hit ...
THE CLIMATE OF FEAR AT BEAUDRY
4lakidsnews.blogspot.com - editorial in Associated Administrators of Los Angeles Update - Week of October 17, 2011 | http://bit.ly/pcoQu8 14 October 2011 - Earlier this week an AALA member, a supervisory administrator, sent...
Puerto Rican teachers push against privatization of schools on Duncan visit
fsrn.org - Year: 2011Length: 4:44 minutes (4.33 MB)Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR) Education Secretary Arne Duncan is visiting Puerto Rico this week, where he’s attending a conference on education. On Tw...
CER 18th Anniversary Gala
edreform.com - NOTORIOUS GARDEN STATE ACTIVIST TO PERFORM AT NATIONAL EDUCATION CELEBRATION WASHINGTON, DC (September 28, 2011) – Derrell Bradford, executive director of New Jersey-based Better Education for Ki...
Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, Walks Out on 1,000-Plus Parents Who Traveled to His L.A. County Town Hall - Los Angeles News
blogs.laweekly.com - Arne Duncan has places to be.Lydia Grant, a big education activist in SoCal, asked us to attend U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's two-hour-long town hall in Pico Rivera earlier this week. ...
Most charter applicants fail, but KIPP Jacksonville looks to expand
uc.jacksonville.com - Despite its first school earning the lowest FCAT score in Northeast Florida last year, the charter school organization KIPP Jacksonville is moving forward with plans to open two new schools in the ...
Test Result: No School for Student with Asperger Syndrome - On Special Education
blogs.edweek.org - At the moment, South Carolina mother Gretchen Herrera isn't worried about whether her son has to take state tests in reading and math this year.He has to be in school for her to worry about that.La...
Parent-teacher group seeks input on school reform - Spokesman.com
spokesman.com - BOISE – The group behind the referendum campaign to challenge Idaho schools Superintendent Tom Luna’s “Students Come First” reform laws is launching a new project aimed at gathering ideas on how ...
2011 Agenda / Foundation for Excellence in Education
excelined.org - Education Everywhere: National Summit on Education Reform 2011Thursday, October 13, 20117:30 am Registration Opens 7: 30 – 8:15 am Breakfast Buffet8:30 – 9:00 am Welcome from Je...
New Orleans RSD — the ‘miracle’ district
garyrubinstein.teachforus.org - The Louisiana Department Of Education just released the 2011 School Performance Data. As New Orleans has been hailed as a ‘miracle’ district, I was eager to see the results. As you might know, afte...
No Testing Week - Finding Common Ground
blogs.edweek.org - "We are raising a stressed out generation of students who are over-tested and overanalyzed."The other day I took some time to craft an e-mail in a Word document. I needed to take the time to make s...
City Council Will Require More Detailed Inventory of School Space – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Oct. 17, 2011, 6:50 p.m. In an effort to keep track of how schools use space, the City Council unanimously approved a bill Monday that will require the Department of Education to submit an annual r...
The KIPP Schools that KIPP Doesn’t Claim « A "Fuller" Look at Education Issues
fullerlook.wordpress.com - As the few regular readers of this blog know, I am working on a report that focuses on Texas charter schools. Many of the myths surrounding charter schools–especially the so-called high-performing ...
Building Trust Between Schools & Parents - Bridging Differences
blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,I've so many different topics I want to write you about! Watching a YouTube video Mike Klonsky sent me about a current demonstration in Chicago brought back a flood of memories from the ...
WEEKEND QUOTABLES
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Dr. Cornell West "If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, he would be on Freedom Plaza."--Upon his arrest in D.C. protestSen. Bernie Sanders"Now that Occupy Wall Street is shining a spotli...
Regents approve funding bid for slate of test security measures
gothamschools.org - ALBANY — State education officials today received the go-ahead to request $2.1 million to expand the scale of the state’s test security program. That funding, which the state legislature must appro...
Daily Kos: Starving America's Public Schools - financially
dailykos.com - I am not going to explore the entire report. It is not that long - the PDF, including covers and footnotes, is only 48 pages. You can get a good sense of it from the piece at Our Future.org from...
California School Spending Among Lowest In The Nation
huffingtonpost.com - This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch.Budget shortfalls have pushed California's spending on public schools to a historic low, relative to the rest of the United States, according t...
This Day in History 10/17: Burgoyne Surrenders at Saratoga
mrdsneighborhood.com - Image via WikipediaEverything about the Battle of Saratoga–including its name–has been scrubbed clean by scores of textbooks. On October 17, 1777, after a punishing four-month campaign, British gen...
Harkin-Enzi Bill Improved... Or Ruined?
scholasticadministrator.typepad.com - October 17, 2011 | Posted At: 06:30 PM | Author: Alexander Russo | Category: Best of the Blogs & Pundits , NCLB News Harkin – Enzi ESEA Bill Now Officially Bad Kevin Carey: No bill is better than t...
Big Class Takes a Big Step Towards Literacy - Education
good.is - The number of illiterate adults in New Orleans is nearly twice that of the national average, a statistic that's all the more frightening when we consider their children. For an elementary school st...
Pension Call Tuesday. « Fred Klonsky's blog
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Pension Call Tuesday. « Fred Klonsky's blog:Pension Call Tuesday.by Fred KlonskyThe veto session begins in one week. Every reader of this blog now must contact their own General Assembly representa...
Blog posts on this issue
whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the First Lady For Immediate Release October 17, 2011 South Lawn3:38 P.M. EDTMRS. OBAMA: Man, isn't that something? (Applause.) Hello everyone, and welcome to the White Ho...
Union leaders turn out to support Jobs Act | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Union leaders turn out to support Jobs Act | Philadelphia Public School Notebook:Union leaders turn out to support Jobs Actby Benjamin Herold on Oct 17 2011 Posted in Latest newsPhoto: Benjamin Her...
Are we over-taxing the corporations? In spite of fat cat whining, not in Illinois. « Fred Klonsky's blog
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Are we over-taxing the corporations? In spite of fat cat whining, not in Illinois. « Fred Klonsky's blog:Are we over-taxing the corporations? In spite of fat cat whining, not in Illinois.by Fred Kl...
Challenge West Virginia » Superintendent wants year-round schools
challengewv.org - by Amber Marra Daily Mail State Superintendent Jorea Marple wants more West Virginia schools to adopt a year-round calendar. “We know when children are off for extended periods of time, they lose g...
In Case You Missed it
ascd.typepad.com - Check out the most recent ASCD highlights: ASCD Author Bryan Goodwin says it may not be the program that doesn’t work, it might be that the way it's implemented is all wrong. Simply knowing and ta...
Community Action Councils present their vision of local schools | catalyst
catalyst-chicago.org - Imagine this: A community that is viewed as an expansive campus, home to elementary schools that specialize in all sorts of things from Montessori to math and science to language. Parents don't hav...
Five Strategies for Supporting Gifted Students
ascd.typepad.com - Last week's most-clicked ASCD SmartBrief article echoes a previous most-clicked report from the Fordham Foundation that claims policies focused exclusively on low achievers disserve high achievers,...
Loving my i-pad in the Classroom!
edupln.com - I love using my i-pad in the classroom sooo much that I want more of them! I know I may be a little late to this game and that many teachers who are reading this are most likely beyond what I ha...
By 2015 U.S.-Born Hispanics Expected to Make Up 65% of 18- to 29-Year-Olds
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 3:33 pm, October 17, 2011 Photo Credits: By 2015 U.S.-Born Hispanics Expected to Make Up 65% of 18-29-Year-Olds Tr3s: MTV, Musica y Mas presents an in depth research study on the rapid...
District's persistently dangerous schools reduced by nearly half
thenotebook.org - The Pennsylvania Department of Education released its Persistently Dangerous Schools list for 2011-2012. The number of Philadelphia schools on the list has decreased by 47 percent. Ten District sch...
Senators announce agreement on education law
boston.com - WASHINGTON—Signaling some unity in the Senate on overhauling the "No Child Left Behind" law, two senators announced Monday an agreement to move forward on bipartisan legislation to revamp it.Soon a...
Generational Divide in Education « My Island View
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Generational Divide in Education « My Island View:Generational Divide in Educationby tomwhitbyIt is my birthday today, so please forgive me for allowing my contemplation once again lead us down a w...
Quick Hits (10.17.11)
quickanded.com - Substitute ESEA bill. You’ve heard by now, we assume, of the ESEA substitute bill posted this morning. As Policy Analyst Anne Hyslop explains, the changes correspond with concerns expressed by advo...
How Should Corporate America Respond to Occupy Wall Street?
forbes.com - Protesters occupy Wall Street (Image by editrrix via Flickr)Business leaders and entrepreneurs surveying the growing Occupy Wall Street movement might be tempted to dismiss it as so much youthful a...
Breaking News: Senate takes teacher/admin test-based evaluation off the ESEAtable
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » Breaking News: Senate takes teacher/admin test-based evaluation off the ESEAtable:Breaking News: Senate takes teacher/admin test-based eval...
Rules Are Made to Be Broken, and Fixed – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Oct. 17, 2011, 3:20 p.m. The first few weeks of school feel like rehearsal for both students and teacher. We go through routines slowly: practicing how to enter and exit the classroom, seeing how q...
Keeping Teachers Off the Unemployment Line
ed.gov - “I don’t want teachers on the unemployment line. I want them in the classroom,” Secretary Duncan said last Friday at an American Jobs Act roundtable in Richmond, Va. “This is really a moment of tru...
Don’t wait for Tuesday! Today’s the day to contact your Senator on ESEA
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » Don’t wait for Tuesday! Today’s the day to contact your Senator on ESEA:Don’t wait for Tuesday! Today’s the day to contact your Senator on ...
New money vs. old muscle in education races | WBRZ News 2 Louisiana : Baton Rouge, LA |
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - New money vs. old muscle in education races | WBRZ News 2 Louisiana : Baton Rouge, LA |:New money vs. old muscle in education racesA-AA+Posted: Oct 17, 2011 12:05 PM Updated: Oct 17, 2011 1:49 PMSh...
The science of recess | EdNews Parent
ednewsparent.org - AURORA – With 770 students squeezed into a school building designed to accommodate just 425, classroom space at Aurora’s Elkhart Elementary School is at a premium. Elkhart Elementary's new Peaceful...
